User blog comment:Lathagarr Stormgale of Tronn/Q&A/@comment-2006360-20101201173514/@comment-71.199.7.48-20101202015341

Most of them didn't fail. To name a few: Nazi Germany, The Roman Catholic Church in the 1200's (Strong enough to be a government), East Timor, Soviet Russia, and Iran. Not that anyone read it in Iran anyway.